Bumblebees on the Yellow Flower of March

In the mid-afternoon of Sunday, March 29th, Jorge Alcalá and Michel Salas were walking through one of the secondary vegetation sectors of Fundación Loros when the deep yellow of some flowers stopped them in their tracks. It was Senna fruticosa, a shrub of the legume family, which that day wore its open blossoms and its well-formed green pods all at once — flowering and fruiting simultaneously, as if the plant wished to display everything it was capable of giving. It was not alone. Moving among the flowers were several bumblebees — genus Bombus — going about their quiet work of foraging, moving from bloom to bloom with that calm, unhurried purpose that defines them. Behind it all, the hillsides lay draped in dense vegetation beneath a blue March sky. Jorge and Michel took five photographs and left a record of this small encounter between plant and pollinator, set within a landscape that continues, slowly and steadily, to heal itself.